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What did dang say when you emailed HN?

I've found he's always happy to talk about this kind of stuff. The software sometimes makes mistakes.

Ok, yes, it seems nobody responds to the HN email address regarding issues like this. They likely filter out those not as popular as you.

That's neither true nor fair. We sometimes fall behind on emails, and I had several dozen to answer before getting to yours, which is currently next in the queue.

Coming here to see the context before answering your email is an ironic moment to encounter snark about us not answering emails. If you'd merely said we were too slow, I'd fully agree.

Apologies, I wasn't aware of the backlog. It wasn't intentionally snarky - if I ran a board as popular as this, prioritizing popular accounts would be sensible thing for me to do, so I assumed.

At your suggestion, I did. I don't know what their typical response time is, but as of yet nothing.

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